Academic Journal
Correlating Cell Behavior with Tissue Topology in Embryonic Epithelia
| Title: | Correlating Cell Behavior with Tissue Topology in Embryonic Epithelia |
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| Authors: | Sandersius, Sebastian A., Chuai, Manli, Weijer, Cornelis J., Newman, Timothy J. |
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| Collection: | ArXiv.org (Cornell University Library) |
| Subject Terms: | Quantitative Biology - Cell Behavior, Physics - Biological Physics, Quantitative Biology - Tissues and Organs |
| Description: | Measurements on embryonic epithelial tissues in a diverse range of organisms have shown that the statistics of cell neighbor numbers are universal in tissues where cell proliferation is the primary cell activity. Highly simplified non-spatial models of proliferation are claimed to accurately reproduce these statistics. Using a systematic critical analysis, we show that non-spatial models are not capable of robustly describing the universal statistics observed in proliferating epithelia, indicating strong spatial correlations between cells. Furthermore we show that spatial simulations using the Subcellular Element Model are able to robustly reproduce the universal histogram. In addition these simulations are able to unify ostensibly divergent experimental data in the literature. We also analyze cell neighbor statistics in early stages of chick embryo development in which cell behaviors other than proliferation are important. We find from experimental observation that cell neighbor statistics in the primitive streak region, where cell motility and ingression are also important, show a much broader distribution. A non-spatial Markov process model provides excellent agreement with this broader histogram indicating that cells in the primitive streak may have significantly weaker spatial correlations. These findings show that cell neighbor statistics provide a potentially useful signature of collective cell behavior. ; Comment: PLoS one 2011 |
| Document Type: | text |
| Language: | unknown |
| Relation: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5137 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0018081 |
| Availability: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018081 http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5137 |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.7514D08F |
| Database: | BASE |
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